Problem setting shinyUIDir in runExampleApps when using my own project

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#1

Trying to create the function that loads the project into the temporary directory.

This is the line that is causing the problem:

# copy server.R, ui.R, www etc.
# shinyUiDir <- system.file("examples", "01_hello", package = "shiny")
shinyUiDir <- system.file("R", package = "EdaWeb")

I don’t know where my application will install to, so all I need to do is find out what to name my shinyUiDir and this script should work, but given I can’t get my Docker image to build because it is not looking in the R directory, it’s unclear where to build the list of files from. The directory would be wherever the installation directory is, and then inside the R directory.

#2

@john_ryan_zelling

Putting your Shiny files inside the R directory of your package will almost surely fail, since that directory is meant to contain the R functions of your package.

A typical place you would put the Shiny interface would be inside the inst/ui directory of the package, which you can then locate using

shinyUiDir <- system.file("ui", package = "EdaWeb")

HTH,
Tobias